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Zimbabwe’s street children: how to get them home and back in school

Zimbabwe’s government undertook a survey in 2023 to ascertain how many children were living on the streets of the country’s second biggest city, Bulawayo. The most recent numbers were from a similar 2015 survey, the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Welfare told reporters – and, in the intervening eight…

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Church of England ‘directly responsible’ for John Smyth abuse in Zimbabwe, victim says

Rocky Leanders, then 15, was beaten with wooden paddle by Smyth at camp where boys were made to swim naked

The Guardian - UK

Church of England: why the archbishop’s resignation isn’t justice for abuse survivors

Justin Welby resigned as archbishop of Canterbury following a damning report about a prolific child abuser in the Church of England. The report into decades of abuse of more than 100 boys perpetrated by the barrister John Smyth QC in the UK, South Africa and Zimbabwe detailed the Church of…

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Sister of boy who drowned at Smyth camp says Church should have stopped abuser

Edith Nyachuru described her brother Guide, who was 16, as a ‘lovely boy’ who was a good swimmer.

Evening Standard

Colonial powers tried to stifle traditional healing in Zimbabwe. They failed and today it’s a powerful force for treating mental illness

In Zimbabwe’s Shona language, mental illness is known as chirwere chepfungwa or kupenga. Before British colonial settlers arrived in 1890, traditional healers (n’anga) played an important role in helping people to manage their mental as well as their physical health.

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Food aid interventions can curb climate change-induced hardship. But should they do more?

The United States foreign food aid program can be a big help when extreme weather fueled by climate change hammers communities

The Independent UK

Mystery surrounds John Smyth after leaving UK and Zimbabwe for South Africa

Smyth enjoyed ‘opulent lifestyle’ in Cape Town after he was barred from Zimbabwe, where he abused boys at summer camps

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Elephant towers on hind legs over tourists to eat from branches above camp

An elephant stood on its hind legs to reach over the heads of tourists and rip a branch from a tree overhead in Zimbabwe.

The Independent UK

‘Levels are dropping’: drought saps Zambia and Zimbabwe of hydropower

Vast human-made Lake Kariba is at near-record low, causing daily power cuts and devastating two African economies

The Guardian - UK

Jailed Zimbabwean pro-democracy activist found ‘hope’ in UK refugee scholarship

Makomborero Haruzivishe was nearly killed before he fled his home country two years ago, and is now studying law and politics in Kent.

The Independent UK

Sam Curran will bide his time as England’s Test team is ‘looking for extra pace’

The left-armer made the last of his 24 Test appearances three years ago.

The Independent UK

Zimbabwe’s public historian Pathisa Nyathi has died – he restored the erased history of the Ndebele people

When an elderly person dies, a library has burned down – the saying is a cliché, but has never been truer than in the case of Pathisa Nyathi, who passed away at the age of 73 on 2 November.

The Conversation

Emotional abstracts recount Zimbabwe’s struggles and strength

Zimbabwe’s dramatic landscapes and enduring struggles resonate in Gillian Rosselli’s abstract paintings, which reveal her homeland’s resilience amid drought, poverty and environmental decline. Rosselli has made her European debut this year with two major exhibitions – at the Zimbabwe pavilion in the Venice Biennale and at the “Also Known as…

Radio France Internationale

Zimbabwe’s gold-backed currency loses half its value: Why and what’s next?

Six months in, the gold-backed ZiG touted as a solution to the currency crisis is struggling to win confidence.

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Zimbabwe’s water supply is in crisis: how political interference and underfunding did the damage

In Zimbabwe, control over water is supposed to be decentralised. In other words, the seven regions in the country have the authority to govern their own water resources in the way that best suits their needs.

The Conversation

Zimbabwe’s ZiG: devaluations won’t fix a currency that’s in trouble because of government overspending

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe devalued the ZiG by 43% on 27 September 2024. This weakened the official exchange rate from 13.9 ZiG per US dollar to 24.4 ZiG per US dollar.

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Colonial white boys in Zimbabwe: John Eppel’s autobiography is a welcome book, but a difficult read

Zimbabwean writer John Eppel’s literary career has always been defined by one peculiar trait. He publishes fictional work, in stark contrast to the majority of the country’s other white writers who have fetishised the autobiographical mode.

Radio France Internationale

Zimbabwe reports first two mpox cases, after Zambia week before

Zimbabwe has confirmed its first two cases of mpox, days after Zambia reported its first case. The cases, whose variants have not been identified, were detected in people who were from or had travelled to Tanzania and South Africa.

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Al Jazeera

How secondhand clothes took Zimbabwe by storm – and hammered retail

The country’s clothes manufacturers are taking a beating from imported ‘preloved’ clothes and a struggling economy.

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: dictator obsessive Munya Chawawa takes aim at North Korea

The polymath comic, who fled Zimbabwe as a child, investigates life in the hermit kingdom. Plus: Phillip Schofield does some self-reflection on the beach. Here’s what to watch this evening

France 24

The long journey home for South African freedom fighters

Forty-two South African freedom fighters have been honoured in their homeland after their bodies were repatriated from Zimbabwe and Zambia. The activists died there in exile decades ago during the struggle against Apartheid. Their return is part of a government programme to bring closure to their families, who have long…

The Independent UK

Remains of South African freedom fighters arrive home from Zimbabwe and Zambia

South African officials say the remains of 49 freedom fighters who died while exiled in Zimbabwe and Zambia during the struggle against white minority rule in South Africa have been returned to the country

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South African Freedom Fighters' Remains Repatriated For Reburial

South Africa repatriates 42 freedom fighters' remains from Zambia and Zimbabwe to honor their sacrifices in the struggle against apartheid.

France 24

Tanzania releases arrested opposition leaders

Police in Tanzania release three opposition leaders on bail, hours after they were arrested for planning anti-government protests in Dar es Salaam. Also, a court in Zimbabwe denies bail to over 60 opposition figures and activists. And dozens of couples say "I do" during Morocco's Moussem of Imilchil festival. The…

France 24

Brussels summons Congolese ambassador over Belgian death sentence

A series of death sentences in a coup trial in DRC is causing a stir both inside the country and abroad. Also, Zimbabwe has followed Namibia in announcing plans to slaughter hundreds of wild elephants and other animals in a bid to tackle the fallout from severe regional drought. And…

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